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hit singles Music music videos Soul

Soul Seventies! {Part 1}.

A modest-but-shockingly-great sampler of soul hits from the 1970s, performed live. We have Billy Paul, Blue Magic, The Isley Brothers, Ben E. King, LTD, Brick, The Main Ingredient, Arthur Prysock, The Al Green, The Spinners, and The Stylistics, featuring Russell Thompkins, Jr.

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Bands performers The Who

The Who: A Force Majeure.

Some early titanic achievements by this legendary group. Ably demonstrated is this band’s fiercely combustible power and unstoppable propulsive energy. Moon, Townshend, Entwistle, Daltrey: rock gods, all.

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Actors Actors of Greatness Crispin Glover Film

River’s Edge {1986}.

This quirky, moody, disturbing, occasionally hysterical crime drama boasts a fine ensemble cast, but Crispin Glover steals the show with a stunning, unforgettable performance as druggy ringleader-of-sorts Layne. Iconic, a tour de force. Keanu Reeves is very good as Matt, a relatively sane teenager. Dennis Hopper has a nice turn as dealer/murderer/weirdo Feck.

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Classical music pianists

Valentina Lisitsa.

This Ukrainian-born pianist is simply poetic to behold at the keyboard.